<figure id="attachment_466225" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-466225" style="width: 1108px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="865199a7"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2026/04/b53f2e2303b5ebd88d6820abba102f60.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-466225" class="wp-caption-text">Yumi says, &#8220;Without this part-time job, I can&#8217;t even have a cup of tea at a café.</figcaption></figure>
 How much is a full-time housewife&#8217;s allowance per month?&#8221;
 Prices continue to rise, but the cost of living does not increase. In a time when many families are unable to make ends meet on their husbands&#8217; income alone, there are housewives who have a &#8220;second income that they can&#8217;t tell anyone about.
 They work only three hours a day. What is the &#8220;secret part-time job&#8221; of one woman who earns 50,000 yen for just three hours of work?
<h2> Housewife selling underwear</h2>
 Yumi (40 years old, pseudonym), a Tokyo resident, earns about 1 million yen a year that she cannot tell her husband about. She says that her &#8220;secret part-time job&#8221; is &#8220;only 3 hours a month at the most, and it&#8217;s hand-delivered so it&#8217;s not traced back to me. When we asked him for more details, he showed his white teeth and said, &#8220;I sell underwear.
 I sell used underwear with videos. It&#8217;s like the old days of Bulcella. I have a fixed clientele, and I sell once a month or once every two months.
 A set of used underwear, including a bra and panties, costs 10,000 yen. For an additional fee, she will sometimes attach a photo or video of her wearing the underwear.
 I&#8217;m a C cup, so on sale I can get the top and bottom for about 1,980 yen. The top up is purely 8,000 yen. I mean, underwear is a consumable item, so it&#8217;s great that it turns into money. I sometimes add HEATTECH, socks, and stockings as extras, but I don&#8217;t take any money for these. It&#8217;s like a service.&#8221;
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 In the beginning, he had one fixed customer who bought his underwear. He said he first met her more than 20 years ago.
 When I was a college student, I was always short of money and was always looking for someone to help me out on a message board on a dating site. It was what we now call &#8220;adult dating. I think I wrote &#8220;Hobetsu 3,&#8221; describing myself as a college student and my appearance in the text.
 Hobetsu 3&#8243; is a cloak term meaning &#8220;30,000 yen in addition to the hotel charge. A customer who regularly buys underwear from Yumi responded to this post.
 Ms. A wrote: &#8220;Ms. A said, &#8216;Instead of helping me, can you sell me underwear?　I would like to buy one set for 10,000 yen. I had an accumulation of underwear that I didn&#8217;t need, so I immediately agreed. It&#8217;s a great way to turn trash into money, isn&#8217;t it?
 The two exchanged messages on the message board and actually met at a karaoke box near a station in Hachioji.
 I didn&#8217;t feel scared at all. Mr. A was about five years older than me and wore a wedding ring. If I had to say whether he was handsome or ugly, I would say he was in the handsome category. I even wondered, &#8220;Why would such an ordinary guy buy lingerie?&#8221; I wondered.&#8221;
 When I first met him, he sold seven sets of underwear and got 70,000 yen in immediate cash. He accepted an offer of an additional 10,000 yen if he showed me his underwear off, and got a total of 80,000 yen.
 I felt like a &#8230;&#8230; goofball taking off the underwear I was wearing and putting them back on again (laughs), but 10,000 extra for that was totally reasonable.　I was like, &#8216;I don&#8217;t want to let this person go! I thought to myself, &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to let this guy get away! I gave him my email address and phone number. Since then, our relationship has continued for 20 years.
<figure id="attachment_466230" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-466230" style="width: 942px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="35323e23"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2026/04/99fae104ec02ed74fc82f85ed7cb3196.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-466230" class="wp-caption-text"> All the underwear she no longer needed when she was pregnant went to Ms. A. &#8230;&#8230;</figcaption></figure>
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<h2> 10,000 yen for 30 seconds of video</h2>
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 In the course of our long relationship, this happened.
 There was a time when I spent so much on hosting that I couldn&#8217;t pay my cell phone bill. I had just sold my underwear and had nothing to sell, so I asked Mr. A if he would &#8216;help&#8217; me out. But he refused, saying, &#8220;No, I don&#8217;t have any money for that kind of thing.
 But he seemed to want to help me out of my money shortage, so we went to a hotel together and I repeated the act of putting on and taking off the three sets of underwear he had bought &#8230;&#8230; and received 30,000 yen. Then he said, &#8216;I want a video of you peeing.&#8217; and I shot a 30-second video by myself in the bathroom for a total of 40,000 yen. That&#8217;s too cosy, isn&#8217;t it?
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 At the end of the year and the beginning of the new year, I receive a line with a proper greeting, and around the 5th of every month, I receive a phone call asking me how I am doing this month. How are you doing this month?
 When I told him I got married or got pregnant, he would say, &#8220;Congratulations. Please keep up the good work.&#8221; The requests to sell underwear continued.
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 I deal with them about once every two months at the station nearest our home or in my car. My husband is the type who says, &#8216;Don&#8217;t work, raise your kids! &#8216; type, but he has a low monthly salary, so his earnings alone are purely negative every month. Mr. A really helps me out. My husband doesn&#8217;t realize it, but our family is what it is because of Mr. A.&#8221;
 When she became pregnant and was having trouble finding maternity underwear, Ms. A approached her with this offer: &#8220;If you have a friend who wants to sell underwear, please let me know. If you have any friends who want to sell their underwear, please let me know.
 &#8216; I was priced out of nursing bras and large panties for pregnant women for the first time, saying, &#8216;Can you give me 7,000 yen?&#8217; But Ms. A still kept buying. She promised to give me 10,000 yen for each friend I referred and give me 2,000 yen for every set she sold.
<figure id="attachment_466228" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-466228" style="width: 1087px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="7dc966a7"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2026/04/9e094f373b54acb527318f3cb1d51c7d.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-466228" class="wp-caption-text"> She was selling underwear with a big belly.</figcaption></figure>
 But not just anyone would do, she says, &#8220;Maybe because I was a slender C-cup, she requested, &#8216;I&#8217;d rather have a big tummy and a normal body type, around an F-cup.
 &#8220;I told my fellow housewives and they all said, &#8216;I want to do it!&#8217; I told my housewife friends and they all said, &#8216;I want to do it! The conditions were that I had to hand-deliver at least once to Ms. A and that I could buy no more than five items in one transaction. Many of my moms&#8217; friends are strapped for cash, so they were really happy.
 I wonder if her husband would be suspicious of her buying new underwear so often.
 &#8220;It&#8217;s just cheap underwear, so he doesn&#8217;t mind. I guess it would be different if they were brand-name, high-end underwear. But recently, I try to earn money from my friends&#8217; agency fees and video allowances.
 Wearing a mask, she shoots videos of herself undressing in her underwear, changing out of her regular clothes, and occasionally peeing. He receives 5,000 to 10,000 yen for each video. He basically wears a mask for the videos, but he is not sure what he will do with the videos after he buys them.
 I&#8217;ve always wondered what they do with the dozens of pairs of underwear they buy each time.　Mr. A was not upset, but said, &#8216;I enjoy them myself. He seems to be renting an apartment for storage.
 Worst case scenario, it could have been resold, but the problem is the video. My mom and I trust that the videos seem to be safe, and we sell them, but there are times when we receive detailed instructions, and we have no worries that the videos might be sold somewhere else. I have a family, so I cannot consult with the police.
 I can&#8217;t even talk to the police because I have a family, so I have no choice but to trust Mr. A. If I lose this money, I&#8217;m going to lose my job. When the money runs out, I can only see a future in which I will be taken care of by a consumer loan company. My husband will never let me work, and it would be bad for his pride if I told him I didn&#8217;t have enough to pay him.&#8221;
 She says she will continue this secret, high-risk, high-return part-time job for some time to come.
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 Sari Yoshizawa

 I work only 3 hours a month. But since I can earn close to 1 million yen with that, I can't stop. Moreover, I only have to dispose of unneeded items, and I get a bonus if I make a video. Here are the shocking details of this "housewife's secret part-time job" that she can't tell her husband about.

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